windmill
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“My goal is to not let any windmill be built.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
In laying out the workings of a traditional Dutch windmill, for instance, he conjures a fictional miller, “a congenial fellow” who “knocks out his pipe on the door frame” before getting to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
They have the largest wooden windmill in America.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025
"Cheap people like me," says Steve, "look at the windmill and say 'nah, I'm not gonna pay extra to go in there', but if it's all included I wouldn't hesitate."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Many technologies can generate low-frequency noise, including ventilation systems, heat pumps, road traffic and windmills.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
He went after windmills because “they kill the birds, they ruin your landscapes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
“Big ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood,” he said in January 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
"The fence of some of the apartments backs onto the school and years ago some of the ladies put small decorations and windmills along their gardens for the children to look at," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Waterwheels appeared in Roman times and then proliferated, along with tidal mills and windmills, in the Middle Ages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
They stomped their feet, windmilled their arms, filling the dance floor with a cyclone of moving bodies.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
He windmilled his fist as the crowd exploded.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
He slipped and windmilled his arms to regain his balance, which made him think about how humans balance ourselves.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
Dark-eyed, dressy little town dolls and dutch-bobbed blondies from windmilled countrysides.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
At first, Billy windmilled his arms, hoping to find it by luck.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Bae caught teammate Jason Delay chugging toward home and third base coach Mike Rabello’s right arm windmilling.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
In the first few minutes he was windmilling his arms to get Chelsea's fans behind their team and he was animated throughout.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Another man picks him up, in a pietà-shaped cradle carry, then sets him back down before helping him rise again with a convulsive, windmilling, resurrecting dance.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
A few relievers stretched in the bullpen, swinging their legs, windmilling their arms in the humid air.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2021
Teetering back as if on the edge of the swimming pool: comic yodel, windmilling arms.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
